Pleasure Quotes - Page 47

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

It's good to see the children be creative. It's the pleasure of the future.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.